National Affairs: Lost Laughter

Because U. S. voters take their
political cartoons in small daily doses, they rarely get a mass
impression of the entire crop during one national campaign. If they
could view the full output for the 1936 election, many of them would
probably be either discouraged at the low estate of politics as
material for caricature or depressed at the downward course of the old
art of cartooning. Significant was the fact that the Pulitzer Prize
committee last May found not a single cartoon worthy of its...